Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?


Four Plays by Bernard Shaw (ed. Pocket Books, 1968) - ISBN: 9780671468637

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and...

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and...

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and...

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and...